Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Toronto-based Weaver Lake Explorations (CDN) has optioned a 3,960-acre base metal property in the Garden Lake area, 100 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont. The property consists of two claim groups, about t…

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is reviewing its disclosure policy after a professional organization concluded that valuation reports and fairness opinions relied on by shareholders are “inade…

A delegation of Venezuelan mining personnel are in Halifax to review indoor vat leaching technology developed by Novagold Resources (TSE) for the recovery of gold. The 6-person delegation includes env…

The first hole of a planned US$300,000 program at the Butte Highlands gold project in central Montana has intersected 225 ft. grading 0.69 oz. gold per ton from 755 ft. to 980 ft. Orvana Minerals (TSE…

In a bit of a twist from the norm, junior company Great Lakes Minerals (TSE) has signed a deal with New York-listed Hecla Mining, a senior producer, to fund part of the development of Hecla’s Grouse C…

A Chilean company held equally by Placer Dome (TSE) and Outokumpu Copper Resources will build a solvent extraction-electrowinning plant at the Zaldivar project in Chile. Placer Dome says the plant, wh…

Costa Rican gold producer Ariel Resources (VSE) has acquired three additional properties at the northern end of the Central American country’s Gold Belt. The properties, named Boston, Gongolona and An…

A new court-appointed interim receiver has been appointed for the Faro mine assets of Curragh (TSE) in the Yukon. Peat Marwick Thorne has replaced Deloitte and Touche, which was being partially funded…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US51.50-52.25 cents per lb. (Oct. 7, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US76-80 cents per lb. (June 10, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.65 per lb. (Sept. 23, 199…

Some peoples’ lives are altered drastically or fatally by a strong gusting wind. This story concerns one such accident which occurred on a summer’s day at a small rail station on the CN Rail line, 75 …

The article “Troubled past is no longer an albatross around Golden Bear’s neck” (T.N.M., Sept. 20/93) did not mention Wheaton River Minerals, which owns 85% of North American Metals, owner of the Gold…

Major changes in Ontario securities regulations will require companies to disclose, individually and by name, the compensation paid to each of their top executives. “These changes put Ontario in the f…